ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,192, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TOPPAN Holdings Inc. (Tokyo) and The University of Osaka (Osaka, Japan).

"Method for producing tissue body and method for promoting differentiation of fat-derived stem cells" was invented by Michiya Matsusaki (Suita, Japan), Fiona Louis (Suita, France) and Shiro Kitano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for producing a tissue construct comprising vascular cells, comprising incubating cells comprising at least fat-derived stem cells in the presence of horse serum."

The patent was filed on Oct. 8, 2021, under Application No. 18/253,460.

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